CAEE Seminar - Monitoring and Predicting Travel Time Reliability for Routes and Networks

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Stuart Building, Room 111, Mies Campus, 10 West 31st Street, Chicago, IL
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The Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department will be hosting a seminar featuring George List, PhD, PE of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Abstract

The increasing availability of probe data is making it feasible to assess travel time reliability. Data for individual trips or portions of trips can be combined to evaluate the performance of segments, routes and networks. The challenge is to develop sensible, intuitive metrics that can be understood and upon which investment and operational decisions can be based. This presentation focuses on describing how that assessment can be performed, what the significant issues are, how the results can be presented, and what insights can be obtained that help the operating agencies determine what improvements to make where. This material is particularly relevant in the context of the recent rulemaking by USDOT on the monitoring of surface transportation network performance. Examples of how to do the monitoring are presented based on data from locations and networks nationwide.

Speaker Bio

Dr. George List is a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at NC State University. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (BSEE, 1971), the University of Delaware (MEE, 1976), and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., CE, 1984). From 2005-2010 he served as the Head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at NC State and from 1995-2005 as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Dr. List is a recognized scholar for his work in reliability assessment, network operations modeling and control, and freight network planning. He recently completed his role as the PI on SHRP 2 project L02, a project that focused on creating a guidebook for travel time reliability monitoring systems. He is currently the PI on a project that is revising the way in which trucks are treated within the highway capacity manual. He is chair of the TRB Joint Traffic Simulation Subcommittee (SimSub), a member of the TRB Traffic Flow Theory Committee, and a former member of the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee. In 2007 he was a co-recipient of the ITS-America “Best of ITS” award in the area of Research and Innovation; he was a recipient of the project of the year award from ITS-New York three times; and in 1999 he was a Finalist in the Edelman Prize Competition (INFORMS). Dr. List is a Fellow of ASCE and a member of ITE, TRB, IEEE, and INFORMS.